What a kitschy little treasure this novel is! Definitely a step away from my typical kind of book, all the more reason I was pleased to be fully absorbed. To be speeding through the almost 400 pages and wanting to pick it up and read more. Silly me going in to it because I “heard there are lesbian undertones”, nah it’s just a good old fashioned love story my friends and I so ship Idgie and Ruth! I did appreciate how it’s not billed as such and really just kind of naturally tells the story of these two women without making a point about it. I read this for my decades challenge and it’s definitely a quintessential 80s read. I will be following up by watching the movie which I haven’t seen since I was small child and really have only a vague memory.

It is told from multiple POV and jumps back in forth in time a good amount, but I didn’t find this hard to follow. Seemingly appropriate to emulate the narrator, elderly nursing home occupant Ninny Threadgoode.